Carpet or door strip.



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(Application led Jul.. 10, 1901.)

Patented luly 9, '|90l.

(No nodal.)

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SAMUELCW. WILT, OF ALVADA, OHIO.

CARPET R no oR STRIP.

srEcIrIcArIcN forming pm of ,Letters Patent No. 678,080, dated July e,1eo1.

Application tiled January l0, 1901. Serial No. 42,778. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W.WILT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Alvada,

l inthe county of Seneca and StateofOhio, have .invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Carpet or Door Strips; and I do declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apL pertainsto make and use the same.

The invention relates to door-sills or weather-protectors.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, durable, andinexpensive door-sill designed to take the place of an ordinary sill andwhich shall be of such construction as to exclude the admission of coldair or moisture and the es cape from -a room of Warm air.

With this and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts,which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointedout in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of adoor and casing, showing my improved doorssill in section andillustrating the manner of closing the space between said door and sill.Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on line w,vFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of the sill or strip before being placed beneath the door. Fig. 4is an enlarged'sectional viewthrough one end of the sill, roller, andspring. l

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 f denotes the easing,preferably made in one i part, or it may be made in sections. Thiscasing consists of a bottom 2,.end piece 3, in-

' clined side walls 4, and iat top portions C. 4o Interposed between thetop portions and extending to the bottom of the casing is a longitudinalrecess formed out of the body of the casing, as shown in Fig. 1. To thebottom of the recess and at opposite ends thereof I secure the liat bodyportion of plates D, the inner ends of which are bent at right angles tosaid body portions, as shown at F, the outer ends thereof abuttingagainst the end walls 3 of the casing. A v

The letter Gr indicates springs made in bow form, which are interposedloosely between the said end walls and the right-angled por tions F. Theends of these bowed springs rest on the fiat body portions of the platesD for a purpose to be presently explained. The letter H indicates theroller, made of any suitable material, being constructed with free andunobstructed ends, said ends being loosely mounted between the end wallsof the casing, the body portion resting on the upper 6o portions of thebows of the springs Gr,wherebyl` when pressure is brought to bear on theroller the ends of said springs are capable of having an endwisemovement on the bodies of the plates D to4 or from the angles F of the65 said plates and said end walls ofthe casing. 0n the opposite sides ofthe roller I secure to the liat top-portions C of the casing plates I l,which extend sligh'tly over the longitudinal recess, thereby to limitthe upward movement i7o of said roller.

I attach importance to the construction of the plates D, whereby ahousing is formed between the angles F thereof and the end walls of thecasing, in which is loosely mount- 7 5 ed and operated the bowed springsG. I also attach importance tothe roller H, loosely mounted between theend walls of the casing and resting on the bodies of the bowed springs.

Previous to my invention a doorsill with 8o a roller journaled in platessecured to doorjambs, the, roller receiving its tension from"strap-hinges secured at-,the ends in the recess of the sill, theopposite ends of the springs being mounted in the bifurcations of theplates on the jambs, has been used. By my construction of roller I doaway with the use of journals atthe ends thereof, as the same is looselyAmounted in the recess ofy the casing, its ends being free andunobstructed for 9o such purpose. The construction and arrangement ofthe angular plates with the'bowed springs loosely mounted 4thereinserves/the purpose of the intermediate parts now in use for operatingthe roller.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is"- In a door-sill, or weather-strip, the combi'-nationwith the casing, having alongitudina'l roo central recess therein,and plates, with at body portions secured to the bottom of the recess,at opposite ends thereof, the inner ends'of the plates, being bent atright angles thereto, the outer ends of the plates abutting when saidroller is depressed, or retracted,

against the end Walls of the casing, and the and the top plates, securedon opposite sides bowed springs, interposed between the end of theroller, substantially as described.

walls of the easing, and the right-angled por- In testimony whereof lhave hereunto set 15 5 tion of the plates, .of the roller having free myhand in presence of two subscribing witand unobstructed ends looselymounted in nesses. Y

the recess and resting on the body portions of the springs, whereby thefree ends of said SAMUEL W' WILT springs are capable of having endwisemove- Witnesses:

Io ment on the bodies of said plates, and to and O. B. BEITLER,

from the angles thereof, and said end wallsl LIZZIE BEITLER.

